Born in 1913 he was the 38th (1974–1977) President and the first appointed to the VP under the 25th Amendment

Former US President has died aged 93, former First Lady Betty Ford has said. Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. became the first (and to date, only) president in U.S. history to fill that office without having been elected either President or Vice-President. Ford had become the longest-living US president